I will be departing Red Hat mid January having handed in mynotice. I’m not going to be spending more time with the family,gardening[1] or other such wonderous things. I’m leaving on good termsand strongly supporting the work Red Hat is doing. I’ve been at Red Hatfor ten years as contractor and employee and now have an opportunity toget even closer to the low level stuff that interests me most. Barringlast minute glitches I shall be relocating to Intel (logically at least,physically I’m not going anywhere) and still be working on Linux and freesoftware stuff.

I know some people will wonder what it means for Red Hat engineering. RedHat has a solid, world class, engineering team and my departure will haveno effect on their ability to deliver.

Alan[1] I note that both the family and garden probably think I should